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VSTO 2010 Word Ribbon Add in Active Document Name

I need to obtain the currently loaded active document name and place it on a control (label or textbox) on a custom ribbon built using VSTO 2010.

From the add in, how can I detect the name of the active document when word launches and when a subsequent document is loaded?

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Howard Bash

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The problem with the application document open is that I am working with a ribbon add-in.

What I tried is to in the ThisAddin code I added:

(1)

public delegate void DocNameChanges(string NewDocName);

public event DocNameChanges docnamechanges;

and later in that module:

(2)

/// <summary>
/// Handle changing reference to current loaded document
/// </summary>
private void myDocChangeEventHandler()
{
if (Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Documents.Count > 0)
{
ThisDocument = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument;

docnamechanges(ThisDocument.Name);
}
}

private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
if (Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Documents.Count > 0)
{
// Hook into the ThisDocument Change Event
Application.DocumentChange += new Word.ApplicationEvents4_DocumentChangeEventHandler(myDocChangeEventHandler);
}
}

(3)

And in myRibbon_Load event added the following:

//Set Handler for document change and name change
Globals.ThisAddIn.docnamechanges += HandleNameChange;

And finally that routine:

private void HandleNameChange(string NewDocName)
{
string docExt = Globals.ThisAddIn.ThisDocument.Type.ToString();
bool bHasExtension = (bool)(NewDocName.IndexOf(".") > -1);
string AdjustedName = string.Empty;

switch (Globals.ThisAddIn.ThisDocument.Type)
{
case Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdDocumentType.wdTypeDocument :
if (bHasExtension)
{
AdjustedName = NewDocName;
}
else
{
AdjustedName = NewDocName + ".docx";
}
break;

case Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdDocumentType.wdTypeTemplate:
if (bHasExtension)
{
AdjustedName = NewDocName;
}
else
{
AdjustedName = NewDocName + ".dotx";
}
break;

case Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdDocumentType.wdTypeFrameset:
AdjustedName = NewDocName;
break;

}

this.txtSaveToFileName.Text = AdjustedName;
this.txtUploadFileName2.Text = AdjustedName;
this.txtLocalFileSaveName.Text = AdjustedName;
}

All this seems to work, except when word is launched via clicking on it from a SharePoint 2010 list.

xenacode

I'm not too familiar with Sharepoint. Can't help you there.

Howard Bash

ASKER

Imagine you have a hyperlink on a web page and the link is just to a DOCX file. I don't think the issue is a SharePoint one. It's just where the hyperlink I am launching word from resides.

GrahamSkan

Do my suggestions not work?

Howard Bash

ASKER

All good. I accidently requested attention. I will request that they remove "requested attention". Sorry about that.